Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia

De bijdragen in deze bundel belichten de economische en sociale ontwikkeling in de landen van de voormalige Sovietunie, met speciale aandacht voor de rol van vrouwen. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Victims and agents: gender in post-Soviet states / door Mary Buckley; Do Russian women want to work? / door Sarah Ashwin en Elain Bowers; Rural women and the impact of economic change / door Sue Bridger; Women and the culture of entrepreneurship / door Marta Bruno; Images of an ideal woman: perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education and women's own eyes / door Rebecca Kay; 'She was asking for it': rape and domestic violence against women / door Lynne Attwood; 'For the sake of the children': gender and migration in the former Soviet Union / door Hilary Pilkington; When the fighting is over: the soldiers' mothers and the Afghan madonnas / door Kathryn Pinnick; Adaptation of the Soviet Women's Committee: deputies' voices from 'Women of Russia' / door Mary Buckley; Women's groups in Russia / door Olga Lipovskaya: Women in changing societies: Latvia and Lithuania / door Nijole White; Progress on hold: the conservative faces of women in Ukraine / door Solomea Pavlychko; Out of the kitchen into the crossfire: women in independent Armenia / door Nora Dudwick; The women's peace train in Georgia / door Tamara Dragadze; Between tradition and modernity: the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women / door Shirin Akiner.